Smart Coasts=Sustainable Communities

Aims & Objectives

Smart Coasts aims to equip Irish and Welsh communities to maintain the economic and strategic value of their near-shore waters. This will be done by facilitating application of new real-time management systems, first suggested by World Health Organisation and soon to be allowed (but not a regulatory requirement of) in the 2006 Bathing Water Directive. This will ensure no adverse loss of beach awards (blue flags) and the maintenance of public health through deployment of ICT tools and real-time public information systems.

Successful Model Implementation and Bathing Water Compliance: Operationalising and running modelling systems to predict bathing water compliance and drive real time prediction and public information systems.

Road-map to Guide Regulators and Operators at other Locations: Providing the mechanisms and communication to ensure take up of the modelling and information systems in both partner areas and throughout the EU.

Partner

ERDF (€)

Total Project Budget (€)

Aberystwyth University Wales LP

1,798,250

2,397,666

University College Dublin

1,468,032

1,957,739

Total

3,266,282

4,355,404

Counties in Ireland where the project is carried out:

Dublin

Counties in Wales where the project is carried out:

Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Swansea

Contacts

Name

Organisation

Email

Telephone

Joanne Chadwick -

University College Dublin,
UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science,
Health Sciences Building (Room C134),
Dublin 4, IRELAND